On 2012-04-10 04:21, Ary Manzana wrote:
In fact, I think Walter and company should stop working on the current DMD codebase and start all over again. The code, as I see it, is a big mess. Now that the spec is more or less "clear" and not many new features are added, I think this is the time to do it.
I think so as well.
Actually, nobody has to wait Walter. The community could just start writing a D compiler in D, host it in github and work with pull requests... something like what Rubinius has done with Ruby. Though you might think it'll be harder to catch up with language changes, if the code has a better design I think introducing new changes should be much easier than in DMD's current codebase.
Yeah, it will be easier to add changes if the compiler has a better design, but you still need to catch up with the reference implementation.
-- /Jacob Carlborg
